Crossover Anime: Starting with Bankai from Demon Slayer

Chapter 354 Problem Students Who Make You Go Bald

The faculty and staff office area of the Shinigami Academy.

Snapped!

A thick file was helplessly tossed onto the pearwood desk.

Ohara Mugoro, the instructor of the advanced class at the Shinigami Academy, was rubbing his temples, which were throbbing slightly.

The old teacher, who was in charge of the first-year students' studies and was known for his strictness and rigidity, sighed deeply as he looked at the group of teachers sitting in front of him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have reviewed all the data regarding the progress of this year's freshmen."

"Overall, both spiritual energy shaping and basic basic skills have reached the average level of previous years, which is acceptable."

Ohara Mugoro stared at the files on the table, his gaze fixed on the name on the first page: "But the reason I called everyone here today, besides the routine report..."

"I think we all have the same thing we want to discuss, right?"

An eerie silence fell over the office.

The teachers looked at each other in bewilderment. Finally, Wen Ren, the teacher in charge of teaching "Basic Words of Power," sighed and broke the silence.

"Coach Ohara, you mean...Asuka, right?"

Ohara nodded: "That's right. Half a month has passed since he enrolled with the decree from the Spirit King Palace."

"But when I look at the comments you submitted, almost all of them are blank."

"What's wrong? Do you not know how to write it, or do you simply not want to write it?"

Teacher Wen gave a wry smile, took off his reading glasses and wiped them: "Teacher, it's not that we don't want to write, it's just... we really don't know how to evaluate him."

Ohara frowned: "What do you mean by that?"

...The child was not a naughty or delinquent student; on the contrary, his attitude could even be described as extremely respectful.

If possible, I'd like to give him an A.

"To be honest, I would be really happy if every student could be like him," Wen Ren said with a wry smile.

"Since you're being respectful, then you must be studying diligently. What's the problem?" Ohara asked, puzzled.

Recalling the class, a look of pity flashed in Mr. Wenren's eyes: "The problem is... my suggestion is to send him to a private school in Rukongai for two years, no, five years..."

"During theory classes, he always sat up straight, his eyes fixed on the blackboard."

"At first, I thought he was listening with great interest, until one day, I asked him to stand up and read aloud a very basic incantation for the demon path..."

Wen Ren paused for a moment: "He stood up, stared at the book for a full minute, and then bowed to me..."

"Oh... Coach, he can't read."

"Some basic Chinese characters are fine, but when it comes to complex ghost incantations or ancient Chinese terms, he feels like his soul has left his body."

Upon hearing this, the teachers in the office all wore complex expressions.

"At first I didn't believe him, I thought he was joking." Wen Ren shook his head: "After all, he was sent by the Spirit King Palace to enroll, he should have some basic cultural knowledge..."

"Now, I don't even dare to ask him questions anymore... His anxious, desperate yet powerless demeanor is so cruel to me, his teacher."

"The same goes for the Ghost Path class," another female teacher in charge of teaching Ghost Path chimed in softly. "He doesn't have the ability to control the spiritual energy within his body."

"I tried to teach him to condense spiritual energy at his fingertips. He struggled for a long time, the veins on his wrists bulging, and in the end, he only managed to squeeze out a faint glimmer of spiritual light..."

"I've studied it carefully. The spiritual power within him is very strong, but also very chaotic. It's impossible to control it using ghost incantations."

"I don't think this is something we can handle; we should contact the Technology Development Bureau."

Ohara Mugoro's brows furrowed even deeper.

As the head instructor of the advanced class, he has seen all kinds of students.

Current vice-captains Renji Abarai, Izuru Kira, and Momo Hinamori are all his students.

He had seen both slow learners and geniuses.

But it's really rare for the same thing to appear in the same person at the same time.

He had heard all sorts of information about the origins of the bird from various sources, and knew slightly more than his teachers.

This is precisely why he's worried that if the teaching progress isn't good, he might be blamed by Squad Zero...

"It's understandable that he couldn't learn academic subjects or the ways of the spirit world... after all, it was due to the era and environment he lived in."

Ohara turned to the two burly men sitting silently in the corner: "But what about swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat?"

"Since he's a swordsman, these two subjects should be his forte, right? Why are you two looking so worried?"

These two are retired officers from the 11th Division of the Gotei 13, specializing in teaching combat skills.

Upon hearing Ohara's question, the swordsmanship instructor subconsciously touched his neck, where a chilling sensation still lingered.

"Instructor, if he's a baby in academic subjects, then in practical training..."

The swordsmanship instructor swallowed hard, a hint of lingering fear flashing in his eyes.

"I can't teach him."

"Instructor Ohara, do you know? When he first arrived, I had him spar with me so I could demonstrate basic swordsmanship techniques to the students..."

"Before he even moved the wooden knife, I felt my neck break."

"It's not the spiritual pressure, but the killing intent... that pure killing intent, untainted by any ulterior motives, I've only ever seen in Captain Zaraki..."

The swordsmanship instructor gave a bitter smile: "If I hadn't dodged that diagonal slash yesterday, I'd be lying in the Fourth Division by now."

The instructor nodded in agreement, adding, "Yes, he doesn't understand what 'sparring' means at all."

"In his mind, once he stepped onto the training field, he would never hold back..."

"I really don't know who taught him these things before; he has absolutely no concept of 'stopping when it'!"

At that moment, Yoruichi Shihōin, who was playing mahjong at Shiba's house, suddenly felt an itch in her nose.

"Coach Ohara, this can't go on," Teacher Wenren added worriedly. "Asuka joined the class halfway through, and now she's disrupting the other students' learning."

"Everyone is avoiding him now; the atmosphere in Class 1-B has reached rock bottom."

Instructor Bai Da nodded in agreement: "That's right, those kids are always on edge when he's around."

"If we really let him spar with those freshmen, I'm afraid the student population will be reduced by half before graduation."

...Ohara Mugoro fell silent.

He understood the teachers' unspoken message.

Asuka wasn't a bad troublemaker; he was just a pitiful person who had been forcibly placed into an unfamiliar environment.

He was trying hard to adapt, but the teachers were either intimidated by his abilities and dared not engage in in-depth conversations with him, or they felt his foundation was too weak and didn't want to waste their time...

His classmates were too different from him, and they had absolutely nothing in common.

It seems he has been isolated.

"You guys, this is, after all, an order from the Spirit King Palace..." Ohara sighed, his voice filled with exhaustion. "The Zero Division must have their reasons for leaving him here."

"You can't just give up on him like this, gentlemen. Isn't there any better way?"

Just as silence fell over the office again.

dong dong.

There was a gentle knock on the office door, and a middle-aged man in a neat teacher's uniform, who looked somewhat languid, pushed the door open and walked in.

He is Sakamoto Kinpachi, a new teacher who recently joined the school from Rukongai.

Because of his extensive teaching experience in the modern world and his profound research on the changes in human society, he was specially invited to teach a brand-new supplementary course—Modern Anthropology.